{"product_id":"1876-invitation-moncure-daniel-conway-the-american-slave-abolitionist","title":"1876 Invitation to Moncure Daniel Conway, American Abolitionist","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eL\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eondon, Monday 27 March 1876 — a century after the United States Declaration of Independence.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis historic invitation asks its recipient to attend South Place Chapel in Finsbury, London, to hear Moncure Daniel Conway, the American abolitionist, minister and radical writer, following his return from a speaking tour of the American West.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eConway had grown up in a slave-owning family in Virginia before becoming an outspoken opponent of slavery. His own journey from that background to abolitionism gives this small surviving document a particularly compelling historical context.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSomeone received this invitation. Someone thought it worth keeping. And, somehow, someone else did too.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePassed from hand to hand and generation to generation, this fragile piece of Victorian paper has survived for 150 years, preserving a small but tangible connection to the people and ideas that shaped the nineteenth century.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cobham Antiques","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67362562670841,"sku":null,"price":95.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0843\/7671\/5513\/files\/DSC_0279.jpg?v=1791964003","url":"https:\/\/cobhamantiques.com\/products\/1876-invitation-moncure-daniel-conway-the-american-slave-abolitionist","provider":"Cobham Antiques","version":"1.0","type":"link"}